H’m – Humming

From Planet 241

A poem by Menna Elfyn – translated from the Welsh by Emma Baines

(Because of the pandemic, children at a primary school were told to hum ‘Happy Birthday’.)

And h’mmm from meeting lips,
sweet as the h’m that hums
the Sumerians’ hymn to creation,
unmarked by the measure of Christ

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